Space plasma physics: A review

BT Tsurutani, GP Zank, VJ Sterken… - … on Plasma Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the ever-present solar wind, our vast solar system is full of plasmas. The turbulent
solar wind, together with sporadic solar eruptions, introduces various space plasma …

Clouds of spacecraft debris liberated by hypervelocity dust impacts on parker solar probe

DM Malaspina, G Stenborg, D Mehoke… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Hypervelocity impacts on spacecraft surfaces produce a wide range of effects including
transient plasma clouds, surface material ablation, and for some impacts, the liberation of …

Dust impact signals on the wind spacecraft

PJ Kellogg, K Goetz, SJ Monson - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze waveforms recorded by the Time Domain Sampler of the WAVES experiment on
Wind which are similar to impulsive waveforms observed by the S/WAVES experiment on …

An analytical model for dust impact voltage signals and its application to STEREO/WAVES data

KR Babic, A Zaslavsky, K Issautier… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Dust impacts have been observed using radio and wave instruments onboard
spacecraft since the 1980s. Voltage waveforms show typical impulsive signals generated by …

Dust directionality and an anomalous interplanetary dust population detected by the Parker solar probe

A Pusack, DM Malaspina, JR Szalay… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Theory and previous space missions indicate there are several populations of
zodiacal dust. The most prominent populations are grains on bound elliptic orbits (α …

Decadal and annual variations in meteoric flux from Ulysses, Wind, and SOFIE observations

ME Hervig, D Malaspina, V Sterken… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Our solar system is filled with meteoric particles, or cosmic dust, which is either
interplanetary or interstellar in origin. Interstellar dust (ISD) enters the heliosphere due to the …

Laboratory investigation of antenna signals from dust impacts on spacecraft

A Collette, G Meyer, D Malaspina… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We describe laboratory experiments which reproduce characteristic signals observed on
spacecraft, believed to be caused by dust impact. A simulated spacecraft, including an …

Modeling Solar Orbiter dust detection rates in the inner heliosphere as a Poisson process

S Kočiščák, A Kvammen, I Mann, SH Sørbye… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Solar Orbiter provides dust detection capability in the inner heliosphere, but
estimating physical properties of detected dust from the collected data is far from …

Understanding Cassini RPWS antenna signals triggered by dust impacts

SY Ye, J Vaverka, L Nouzak… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electric field antennas are capable of detecting dust impacts in different space environment.
We analyze the dust impact signals detected by the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave …

Dust observations at orbital altitudes surrounding Mars

L Andersson, TD Weber, D Malaspina, F Crary… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Dust is common close to the martian surface, but no known process can lift appreciable
concentrations of particles to altitudes above~ 150 kilometers. We present observations of …